Demo Abstract: Testbed Infrastructure for Benchmarking RF-based Indoor Localization Solutions under Controlled Interference

The proliferation of RF-based indoor localization solutions raises the need for testing systems that enable objective evaluation of their functional and non functional properties. We introduce a testbed infrastructure for automatized benchmarking of RF-based indoor localization solutions. The infrastructure leverages a robotic mobility platform which serves as a reference localization system and can transport the localized device in an autonomous and repeatable manner. Using a well defined interface, the infrastructure obtains location estimates from the System Under Test which are subsequently processed in a dedicated metrics computation engine. In this demonstration, we present the capabilities of the testbed infrastructure on the usecase of benchmarking a WiFi fingerprinting indoor localization system under the influence of controlled interference.